00:00Not A Love Story strips bare the porn world while maintaining a sense of balance, truth, and proportion.
00:08Archer Winston, New York Post.
00:10And it's like this party line is that I'm stupid and I'm being used, and I really have no choice whatsoever.
00:17Not A Love Story has the good fortune to have as its principal witness, Linda Lee Tracy, a former stripper, who is intelligent and articulate.
00:25Vincent Canby, New York Times.
00:26I mean, this is 42nd Street, and even outside, if you look at the sign, it says, raunchy live sex shows.
00:33I'm not raunchy.
00:35Not A Love Story is a personal film.
00:38It makes clear the profound difference between erotica's mutually chosen pleasure and the violence and domination that define pornography.
00:45Ms. Magazine.
00:46To be female and conscious anywhere on the planet is to be in a continual state of rage.
00:53Because I'm the fuck-ee, you know what I mean?
00:56Take another little piece of my heart, don't worry.
01:01These magazines have come about more because of the liberation of women, you know, the women's liberation thing, whereby men have started to feel certainly emasculated.
01:12The image is going to stay with you and is going to be transferred into later behavior.
01:16It may be what you decide you want your wife to do because she isn't as interesting as what you see in the films.
01:23And that's why all of us remain as potential, if not real, victims of what goes on in those theaters.
01:30Now, what does that do for you?
01:33That hurts.
01:34That really hurts a lot.
01:36I did a lot of things that I found very detrimental, very degrading to women.
01:40Oh, the beast.
01:42I just couldn't keep it up anymore.
01:44I mean, you understand that.
01:46I mean...
01:47It's a legitimate business.
01:51Yeah.
01:52See, we got pornography and what we needed was eroticism.
01:58Eroticism is like for it instead of against it.
02:01And pornography is against it instead of for it.
02:04Not a love story.
02:07A motion picture about pornography.
02:09Produced by the National Film Board of Canada.
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